Dennis Cunliffe Good (29 August 1926 – 26 June 2021) was an English cricketer who played in four first-class matches for Worcestershire and

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in the 1940s. Good was born in Leeds and educated at

Denstone College Denstone College is a mixed, independent, boarding and day school in Denstone, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England. It is a Woodard School, having been founded by Nathaniel Woodard, and so Christian traditions are practised as part of Colleg ...

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...

, and at

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, where he studied textiles. His first-class debut, and his only outing for Worcestershire, was against the Combined Services at New Road in 1946. He took the single wicket of the 19-year-old

John Dewes John Gordon Dewes (11 October 1926 – 12 May 2015) was an English cricketer, who played for Cambridge University and Middlesex, and was chosen for five Test matches between 1948 and 1950. Life and career Dewes was a protégé of E. J. H. Na ...

and scored 1 and 6 with the bat. The following year he appeared thrice for Glamorgan, claiming seven more wickets (though never more than two in an innings) and managing a top score of 21 in his final game at Derby. He did his National Service in the Royal Air Force, and played league cricket for a while in the north of England. He migrated to Canada in 1952, and set up his own textile importing business in Quebec. After he retired, he lived in Ontario. For some time before his death in June 2021 he was Worcestershire's oldest surviving first-class cricketer. His wife Mary, to whom he was married for 64 years, predeceased him. They had three children.

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from CricketArchive {{DEFAULTSORT:Good, Dennis 1926 births 2021 deaths Cricketers from Leeds People educated at Denstone College Alumni of the University of Sheffield English cricketers Glamorgan cricketers Worcestershire cricketers English emigrants to Canada 20th-century Royal Air Force personnel